Leadership and Legacy in History

Topics in “Leadership and Legacy in History”

Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL), Emory University

MARBL has many collections documenting the lives of Georgia and Atlanta leaders. Some of our strengths include Southern politics, the Arts, and the Civil Rights Movement. This is just a small sample of the kinds of materials at MARBL. Please contact us at marbl@emory.edu for more information.

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  Georgia politician Alexander H. Stephens, was also the Vice-President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War
  
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  United States Senator Sam Nunn, chaired the Armed Services Committee 
  
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  Representative of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva), Morris Berthod Abram
  
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  Marvin Arrington is a local attorney and served as president of the Atlanta City Council
  
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  Urban social worker and civic leader Panke M. Bradley, was the first woman elected to the Atlanta Board of Aldermen
  
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  Atlanta Mayor William B. Hartsfield was chief administrator of the city from 1937-1962, and also served in the Georgia legislature
  
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  Human rights activists Frances Freeborn Pauley and Eliza K. Paschall organized Georgians in support of social causes, including the Civil Rights Movement
  
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  Eleonore Raoul was a suffragette, and the first female graduate of Emory’s law school
  
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  Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Ralph McGill was known as the “Conscience of the South”
  
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  Rabbi Jacob M. Rothschild was an avid supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
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  Founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was instrumental in leading the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and many human rights movements into the 21^st century
  
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  The ultimate amateur athlete, Bobby Jones left the sport of golf after winning a Grand Slam
  
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  Coca-Cola President Robert W. Woodruff was not only a business leader, but a great philanthropist and social progressive
  
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  Activist Joan Browning worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was imprisoned in Albany, Georgia during the Freedom rides
  

Southern history collections (very Atlanta and Georgia focused) on our website:

Modern political collections also have a lot of Atlanta and Georgia topics: